Review of BLAME! (2017) by M W — 18 Jan 2018

Great acting,a script with potential, but that's about it. Let me explain something to you reviewers who are giving this such high marks. RT is a place where people go to to see films reviewed and compared to ALL films on the market, not films only by students and young directors.

Yes, she made an amazing film for a writer/director her age, with great potential, but that does not make it a good movie. The plot was a mess and story structure practically nonexistent. Why the main character was called Sybil, and walked with a limp, were never explained at all, and these were key elements of the story.

My advice to the filmmaker: don't be in such a hurry to make your movie--get the script right first. Any decent editor would have called you on this and told you to either cut it out from the beginning or explain it at some point before the end.

Also, the main character was an extremely attractive girl, and even when she came to school in a sexy outfit, the boys acted as if she didn't exist--all of them! Not realistic behavior and did not match the characters of the boys as the script was written, boys were clearly obsessed with looks and nothing else.

The middle of the story meandered as well, suffered from typical middle story problems, and the ending was sketchy. "If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage." Great work for a first film, but could have been so much better with proper story editing.